Ustaše

The Ustaše was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist terrorist group with 100,000 members at its height in 1941. Founded on 7 January 1929, he Ustaše sought to create a "racially-pure" state of Croatia that was the size of Greater Croatia, a proposed large Croatian country in the Balkans; the Ustaše massacred Serbs, Jews, Romani, and Bosniaks during its collaboration with the Axis Powers in occupied Yugoslavia. Under Ante Pavelic, the Ustaše ruled the Independent State of Croatia during World War II, and they carried out atrocities during their war against the Yugoslav Partisans and the Axis-affiliated Yugoslav guerrillas, the Chetniks, who had an understanding with Nazi Germany but not with the Ustaše, who carried out attacks against Yugoslav people. The Ustaše was banned on 8 May 1945 after the end of the war; some former members led anti-communist resistance in Yugoslavia and continued to fight for Croatian independence.